U2 followers can count on to listen to frontman Bono share a few of the most insightful, poignant and open-hearted tales from his life and profession in a brand new documentary, Bono: Tales of Give up, premiering on Apple TV + subsequent month.
The documentary, filmed on the Beacon Theatre in New York, is described as “a daring and lyrical visible exploration of Bono’s one-man present by the identical title, based mostly on his celebrated memoir, Give up: 40 Songs, One Story, and the accompanying ebook/theatre tour.”
A synopsis for the movie provides that it captures the 64-year-old Dubliner as “he pulls again the curtain on a outstanding life and the household, associates, and religion which have challenged and sustained him, revealing private tales about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rockstar.”
Together with never-before-seen, unique footage from the Beacon Theatre reveals, the movie options Bono performing iconic U2 songs which have formed his life and legacy.
In a newly launched trailer for the doc, Bono launched the present as “the tall tales of a brief rock star”, however it additionally options the singer speaking candidly about his household.
“The final time I noticed my mom alive, was at her personal father’s funeral,” he says within the clip. “This sounds nearly too Irish I do know. My father’s response to this tragedy was to by no means converse of her once more. I craved my father’s consideration, so I sang louder and louder.”
Watch the trailer beneath:
Final November, guitarist The Edge revealed that U2 are engaged on new music, however maybe not the sort of music that anybody was anticipating.
Beforehand, Bono had instructed The New York Occasions that he wished to make a “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album”, stating “Proper now I wish to write essentially the most unforgiving, obnoxious, defiant, fuck-off-to-the-pop-charts rock ‘n’ roll music that we’ve ever made.”
Nevertheless, this doesn’t seem like the place the band’s ideas are at present, if The Edge’s feedback to BBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley on November 25 are to be believed.
“Bono and I are engaged on some loopy sort of sci-fi Irish folks music,” he stated. “Which might find yourself turning into part of the brand new U2 album. We’re unsure but, we’ll see.”
Teasing that “a bunch [of] lovely, Irish musicians” could possibly be contributing, the guitarist added, “A part of our sort of course of is to go so broadly away from, off monitor, and the form of the method of bringing issues again on monitor is sort of the way you get form of distinctive sounding music.”
“We’re at that nice part the place we don’t must over suppose it, we’re simply making music and loving that course of. After which we’ll work out the place issues belong afterwards.”
U2’s final album of recent materials, Songs Of Expertise, was launched in 2017.